Ah, want. Bar soaps from Bruno Fazzolari / FZOTIC: "Three 80 gm hand-soaps, presented in Bruno’s distinct soap pattern box. Handcrafted artisanal soap made in the tradition of savon de marseilles. These soaps cleanse without feeling greasy or drying the skin, enriched with olive and coconut oil, shea butter and yellow cleansing clay. Fumerie offers a mixed box set, featuring Honey Cedar, Toasted Lilac and Black Suede." $30 at Fumerie.
Indie perfumer Bruno Fazzolari’s Fzotic brand has launched two new fragrances, Corpse Reviver and Zdravetz…
Bruno Fazzolari has done up his Monserrat fragrance in a cream: "This concentrated all-over creme has a fresh, bright scent with invigorating notes of apricot, pink grapefruit, osmanthus and fresh green leaves. It offers outstanding hydration and protection for the skin: shea butter guards and moisturizes, while sea buckthorn, rich in omega-7 fatty acid, supports healing; soothing oat and aloe restore softness. Perfect for body after bathing and for dry hands." $28 for 60 ml at the Bruno Fazzolari site.
It was an emergency. A few weeks ago, I was decanting the last of my Jean Patou Colony Extrait into an atomizer, and the atomizer toppled. I managed to save most of it, and I mopped up the rest with my forearms, but the writing was on the wall. Before long, my beloved Colony, a pineapple chypre as goofy and glamorous as Carole Lombard jumping on the bed in My Man Godfrey and as gentle as goose down in a breeze, would be a memory. (Sob.)
I was lamenting this to Tracy at Fumerie, and she asked if I’d ever tried Bruno Fazzolari Unsettled. The Nevada Museum of Art commissioned Fazzolari to create Unsettled — the fragrance, plus a uranium glass bottle shaped like an atomic bomb’s mushroom cloud — for a 2018 exhibition on Western art…
Over the summer, a friend’s son, Anders, turned 13 years old. He’s a stylish kid — he likes to raid his departed grandpa’s closet for ascots and Gucci sunglasses and send the resulting selfies to his mom. He also enjoys the company of middle-aged women, so he asked to host his birthday party at my house.
He was impressed by my perfume collection. I suggested he try a spritz of Guerlain Vetiver. Now, Anders doesn’t have a lot of experience with perfume. When he was a kindergartner, he found a bottle of something Avon that he called his “man cologne” for a few weeks, but that’s it…